Explosion at Otay Mesa warehouse Posted: August 19, 2015
OTAY MESA - (KUSI) -
An explosion at a warehouse in Otay Mesa injured one person just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to SDFRD spokesman Lee Swanson, the fire in the 9800 block of Marconi Drive in Otay Mesa occurred shortly after 2 p.m.
A HazMat team was called to the area after officials discovered the warehouse was home to a marijuana-growing operation.
Medics took a man believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s to Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center for treatment of injuries of undetermined severity.
The cause of the blaze was still under investigation, but fire crews believed it might have been sparked by a problem with an electrical circuit board.
San Diego police were working to determine who was responsible for establishing and running the cannabis-production setup, the spokesman said.
In October 2004, authorities uncovered a nearly six-ton stash of marijuana in a storehouse at the same site, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.